Big animals have always been the major targets of hunters and fishermen. Because body
size is strongly related to diverse ecological roles and life-history aspects, many ecosystem …

Many frugivorous animals act simultaneously as seed predators and dispersers, and shifts in
the abundance and mean phenotype of the frugivore population can alter the prevalence of …

The loss of largest-bodied individuals within species of frugivorous animals is one of the
major consequences of defaunation. The gradual disappearance of large-bodied frugivores …

Size‐selective harvesting, where the large individuals of a particular species are
preferentially taken, is common in both marine and terrestrial habitats. Preferential removal …

Defaunation is disrupting plant–animal interactions worldwide. The overhunting of frugivores
disrupts seed dispersal and diminishes plant regeneration, yet investigations of frugivore …

Global change and human expansion have resulted in many species extinctions worldwide,
but the geographic variation and determinants of extinction risk in particular guilds still …

Large fish are often the most effective seed dispersers, but they are also the preferred target
for fisheries. We recently started to comprehend the detrimental impacts of the extirpation of …

Extinction-driven, body-size reduction of seed dispersers (ie an ecological downsizing
resulting from severe defaunation) can entail the loss of unique ecological functions, and …

Abstract Fishes probably were the first vertebrate seed dispersers, yet little research has
examined this phenomenon. We review evidence of fruit and seed consumption by fishes …

Some central and eastern populations of fisher P ekania [M artes] pennanti are expanding
their ranges following historic range contractions, while many western populations have yet …